Abstract: A comprehensive survey was made of various candidate high temperature materials for gas turbine use, and their relative merits and drawbacks were assessed. It is shown that superalloys, fine-tuned, will be persistent for the next few decades, to be followed up by high temperature intermetallics. For advanced ceramics, the problems of reliability and cost will have to be solved before they can be used in critical parts of engines.So are C/C composites with their oxidation problem. Surface modification and development of thermal barrier coatings can effectively overcome many problems of gas turbine materials and these technologies should be emphasized.

Key words: superalloy, intermetallic compound, ceramic, C/C composite, surface modification